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==General Info==
 
==General Info==
 
Candidates taking a Orchestral Percussion exam are required to:
 
Candidates taking a Orchestral Percussion exam are required to:
 
* play one piece for each of [[Snare Drum]], [[Timpani]] and [[Tuned Percussion]], must not include the study pieces
 
* play one piece for each of [[Snare Drum]], [[Timpani]] and [[Tuned Percussion]], must not include the study pieces
 
* play at least one accompanied piece
 
* play at least one accompanied piece
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* are encouraged to play their pieces on the instruments specified, although [[Glockenspiel]] / [[Xylophone]] / [[Vibraphone]] / [[Marimba]] will be acceptable.
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* may use Hand or pedal-tuned [[timpani]].
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* are responsible for providing their own accompanists.
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== Pieces ==
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Candidates can express their musical identity by choosing pieces and studies from our varied repertoire lists. Drum kit candidates choose two pieces with backing tracks and one unaccompanied piece, from a wide range of authentic styles including jazz, funk, show tunes, film, TV, Latin, reggae and swing. Percussionists choose from a varied selection of tuned percussion, timpani and snare drum pieces with accompanied and unaccompanied options. Candidates can further personalize their program by including an own composition.
  
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== Snare Drum Song List==
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=== Snare Drum Song List ===
 
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== Timpani Song List ==
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=== Timpani Song List ===
 
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! Item !! Works !! Composer !! Publication !! Publisher !! Video
 
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| 1 || Destination Reached || [[Mark Aldous]] & [[Peter Evans]] & [[Lorne Pearcey]] || [[Introducing Percussion]] || [[Trinity College London Press]]
 
| 1 || Destination Reached || [[Mark Aldous]] & [[Peter Evans]] & [[Lorne Pearcey]] || [[Introducing Percussion]] || [[Trinity College London Press]]
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| 5 || Basically Beethoven || [[Jan Faulkner]] & [[Jayne Obradovic]] || [[Percussion Exam Pieces & Studies Timpani: Grades 1-5]] || [[Trinity College London Press]]
 
| 5 || Basically Beethoven || [[Jan Faulkner]] & [[Jayne Obradovic]] || [[Percussion Exam Pieces & Studies Timpani: Grades 1-5]] || [[Trinity College London Press]]
 
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| 6 || Landler || [[Jan Faulkner]] || [[Percussion Exam Pieces & Studies Timpani: Grades 1-5]] || [[Trinity College London Press]]
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| 6 || Landler || [[Jan Faulkner]] || [[Percussion Exam Pieces & Studies Timpani: Grades 1-5]] || [[Trinity College London Press]] || <embedvideo service="youtube"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31scTHem-fI </embedvideo>
 
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| 7 || Lazy and Long || [[Jan Faulkner]] || [[Percussion Exam Pieces & Studies Timpani: Grades 1-5]] || [[Trinity College London Press]]
 
| 7 || Lazy and Long || [[Jan Faulkner]] || [[Percussion Exam Pieces & Studies Timpani: Grades 1-5]] || [[Trinity College London Press]]
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== Tuned Percussion Song List ==
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=== Tuned Percussion Song List ===
 
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! Item !! Works !! Composer !! Publication !! Publisher  
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| 1 || Destination Reached || [[Mark Aldous]] & [[Peter Evans]] & [[Lorne Pearcey]] || [[Introducing Percussion]] || [[Trinity College London Press]]
 
| 1 || Destination Reached || [[Mark Aldous]] & [[Peter Evans]] & [[Lorne Pearcey]] || [[Introducing Percussion]] || [[Trinity College London Press]]
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| 2 || Down to Earth || [[Mark Aldous]] & [[Peter Evans]] & [[Lorne Pearcey]] || [[Introducing Percussion]] || [[Trinity College London Press]]
 
| 2 || Down to Earth || [[Mark Aldous]] & [[Peter Evans]] & [[Lorne Pearcey]] || [[Introducing Percussion]] || [[Trinity College London Press]]
 
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| 3 || Ballad || [[Mark Aldous]] || Ballad || [[Mark Aldous]]
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| 3 || Ballad || [[Mark Aldous]] || [[Tuned Percussion Solos]] || [[Mark Aldous]] || <embedvideo service="youtube"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZXg5_pfNc8 </embedvideo>
 
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| 4 || The Music Box || [[David Hext]] || [[Tuned In]] || [[Southern Music]]
 
| 4 || The Music Box || [[David Hext]] || [[Tuned In]] || [[Southern Music]]
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| 6 || Sleigh Ride || [[Lorne Pearcey]] || [[Team Percussion]] || [[International Music Publications]]  
 
| 6 || Sleigh Ride || [[Lorne Pearcey]] || [[Team Percussion]] || [[International Music Publications]]  
 
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| 7 || Oranges and Lemons || [[Jan Faulkner]] || [[Percussion Exam Pieces & Studies Tuned Percussion: Grades 1-5]] || [[Trinity College London Press]]
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| 7 || Oranges and Lemons || [[Jan Faulkner]] || [[Percussion Exam Pieces & Studies Tuned Percussion: Grades 1-5]] || [[Trinity College London Press]] || <embedvideo service="youtube"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWwFQ1H3LPQ  </embedvideo>
 
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| 8 || This Old Man || [[Jan Faulkner]] || [[Percussion Exam Pieces & Studies Tuned Percussion: Grades 1-5]] || [[Trinity College London Press]]
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| 8 || This Old Man || [[Jan Faulkner]] || [[Percussion Exam Pieces & Studies Tuned Percussion: Grades 1-5]] || [[Trinity College London Press]] || <embedvideo service="youtube"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4imIobDbXK0 </embedvideo>
 
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==Study List ==
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== Technical Works ==
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This section of the exam supports the development of technical skills by assessing candidates’ performance in a range of technical work requirements. Drum kit candidates play specially-composed exercises focusing on the new rudiments introduced for the grade. A range of instrument-specific technical work features in our percussion exams, including exercises, scales & arpeggios, orchestral figures and orchestral extracts. <br/>
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One of the following options, chosen by the candidate
 
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! Instrument !! List !! Publications !! Memory !! Video !!
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| [[Snare Drum]] || Orchestral Figures <br/> Multiple Bounce Roll Study <br/> ||[[Percussion Exam Pieces & Studies Snare Drum Book 1: Grades 1-5]] || Nil || <embedvideo service="youtube"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LumEC_wIDE4 </embedvideo>
 
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! Item !! Works !! Composer !! Instrument !! Publication !! Publisher 
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| [[Timpani]] || Sticking Patterns <br/> Roll Development <br/> Dynamics <br/> ||[[Percussion Exam Pieces & Studies Timpani: Grades 1-5]] || Nil
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| 1 || Backyard Beat || [[Mark Aldous]] || Snare Drum || [[Snare Drum Studies]] || [[Mark Aldous]]
 
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| 2 || Grade 1 Rudimental Study || [[Michael Skinner]] || Snare Drum ||  [[Percussion Exam Pieces & Studies Snare Drum Book 1: Grades 1-5]] || [[Trinity College London Press]]
 
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| 3 || Big and Bold ||  [[Mark Aldous]] || Timpani || [[Timpani Studies]] || [[Mark Aldous]]
 
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| 4 || Grade 1 Study || [[Jan Faulkner]] & [[Jayne Obradovic]] ||  Timpani ||  [[Percussion Exam Pieces & Studies Timpani: Grades 1-5]] || [[Trinity College London Press]]
 
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| 5 || Grade 1 Major Study || [[Jan Faulkner]] || Tuned Percussion || [[Percussion Exam Pieces & Studies Tuned Percussion: Grades 1-5]] || [[Trinity College London Press]]
 
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| 6 || Grade 1 Minor Study || [[Jan Faulkner]] || Tuned Percussion ||  [[Percussion Exam Pieces & Studies Tuned Percussion: Grades 1-5]] || [[Trinity College London Press]]
 
 
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| [[Tuned Percussion]] || C / F / G Major Scales and Arpeggios (One Octave) <br/> Chromatic Scale starting on C  <br/> A / D / E Minor Scales and Arpeggios (One Octave)  <br/> || [[Tuned Percussion Scales & Arpeggios]] || All requirements should be played from memory.
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== Technical Works ==
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== Sight reading ==
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One of the following options, chosen by the candidate
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This test assesses candidates’ ability to perform a previously unseen musical extract, at a level approximately two grades lower than the exam being taken.
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===About the Test===
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After 30 seconds’ preparation time, candidates perform a previously unseen musical extract at a level lower than the exam being taken. Candidates choose whether to perform the test on [[keyboard percussion]], [[snare drum]] or [[timpani]].
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=== Supporting Publications ===
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For practice purposes, sample Sight-reading tests are published by [[Trinity College London Press]] in [[Graded Percussion Sight-Reading, Grades 1-8]]. Purchasing the book is not a requirement.
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== Aural ==
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This test supports the development of candidates’ abilities in musical perception and understanding by requiring them to recognize musical features by ear (for example meter and pulse, pitch, performance characteristics). All questions are based on a single musical example played at the [[piano]] by the examiner.
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Candidates are asked to describe various features of the music such as dynamics, articulation, texture and style. Candidates are not required to sing. <br/>
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1. Listen to the melody three times and clap the pulse on the third playing, stressing the strong beat <br/>
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2. Listen to the melody once and identify the dynamics (Forte & Piano) and articulation (Staccato & Legato) <br/>
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3. Listen to the first two bars of the melody once and identify the last note as higher or lower than the first note<br/>
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4. Listen to the melody twice, with a change of rhythm or pitch in the second playing, identify where the change occurs<br/>
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== Improvisation ==
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This test assesses candidates’ ability to improvise fluently, coherently and creatively in response to a musical stimulus. Candidates perform an improvisation based on a stimulus chosen from the following options:
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* Stylistic, motivic or harmonic for [[tuned percussion]]
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* Rhythmic for [[snare drum]] or [[timpani]]
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=== Stylistic stimulus ===
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This option requires candidates to improvise on their instrument over a notated accompaniment played by the examiner at the piano.
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* Candidates are given a stimulus which includes the notated piano part and chord symbols. The stimulus begins with a two-bar introduction played by the examiner alone, followed by a further section over which
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candidates must improvise for a specified number of repeats.
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* The examiner plays the stimulus twice for candidates’ reference, without repeats.
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* Candidates are then given 30 seconds’ preparation time, during which they may prepare for their improvisation aloud.
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* The test then follows. The examiner plays the stimulus again, and candidates join in after the introduction, improvising for the specified number of repeats. Candidates should aim to improvise in a way that complements the musical style of the stimulus.
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=== Motivic stimulus ===
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This option requires candidates to improvise solo in response to a short melodic fragment.
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* Candidates are given a notated melodic fragment, which the examiner plays twice on the piano for candidates’ reference.
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* Candidates are then given 30 seconds’ preparation time, during which they may prepare for their improvisation aloud.
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* The test then follows. Candidates should aim to improvise within the specified duration range and may begin by quoting the stimulus directly, developing their improvisation from there. However, they are not required to quote the stimulus directly, and may instead develop their improvisation from ideas taken from the stimulus such as a small group of notes or an interval. Responses must use the given time signature.
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=== Harmonic stimulus ===
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This option requires candidates to improvise solo in response to a chord sequence.
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* Candidates are given a notated chord sequence, including chord symbols, which the examiner plays twice on the piano for candidates’ reference.
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* Candidates are then given 30 seconds’ preparation time, during which they may prepare for their improvisation aloud.
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* The test then follows. Candidates should improvise for the specified number of repeats, following the chord sequence. Responses should contain melodic / rhythmic interest.
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=== Rhythmic stimulus ===
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Candidates are given a notated rhythmic stimulus, which the examiner plays twice. The examiner then invites the candidate to play it back to ensure that they have understood it.
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Candidates are then given time to study the test before they perform it, during which they may prepare their response aloud. 30 seconds' preparation time is given.
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== Musical knowledge ==
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This test encourages learners to understand the wider musical context of the pieces they play, as well as their knowledge of notation and their instrument. Examiners ask carefully graded questions based on candidates’ chosen pieces. Questions refer to the solo line only, and not the accompaniment.
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In the exam, candidates choose which piece they would like to be asked about first. Examiners then choose a second piece for the remaining questions. Candidates’ musical scores should be free of annotations which might
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aid their responses. Examiners usually point to the relevant part of the score when asking questions. Candidates can use American terms (eighth note, half note, etc) as an alternative to English terms (quaver, minim, etc).
 
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| 1 || Note values || What is this note value? || A quaver
 
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| [[Snare Drum]] || Orchestral Figures <br/> Multiple Bounce Roll Study <br/> ||[[Percussion Exam Pieces & Studies Snare Drum Book 1: Grades 1-5]] || Nil
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| 2 || Explain key/time signatures || What does 4/4 mean? || Four crotchet beats in a bar
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| 3 || Notes on ledger lines || What is the name of this note? || Bb
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| 4 || Musical terms and signs || What is the meaning of da capo? || Go back to the start
 
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| [[Timpani]] || Sticking Patterns <br/> Roll Development <br/> Dynamics <br/> ||[[Percussion Exam Pieces & Studies Timpani: Grades 1-5]] || Nil
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| 5 || Parts of the instrument || What is the top head of the drum called? || The batter head
 
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| [[Tuned Percussion]] || C / F / G Major Scales and Arpeggios (One Octave) <br/> Chromatic Scale starting on C  <br/> A / D / E Minor Scales and Arpeggios (One Octave)  <br/> || [[Tuned Percussion Scales & Arpeggios]] || All requirements should be played from memory.
 
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==Reference==
 
==Reference==
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[[Category: Percussion Exam Syllabus]]
 
[[Category: Percussion Exam Syllabus]]
 
[[Category: TCL Exam Syllabus]]
 
[[Category: TCL Exam Syllabus]]
 
[[Category: Grade 1 Percussion Exam Syllabus]]
 
[[Category: Grade 1 Percussion Exam Syllabus]]

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